[P1] Panther printing

Leo Mulvihill wildcelt at comcast.net
Tue May 4 15:29:38 PDT 2004


an old pc works great as a print server.... I have one running Fedora 
Linux and it is flawless.. and cheap too
On 4 Beal 2004, at 11:33, Brian Pearce wrote:

>> Another thing, I thought that GIMP Print would allow a Macintosh 
>> print from nearly any computer that the iBook is attached to. I tried 
>> that but can't seem to get it to work.
>
> If I understand you correctly, I think what you'll want to do is turn 
> on Printer Sharing under System Preferences-->Sharing-->Printer 
> Sharing. That allows you to share the Printers a computer is connected 
> to over a network; I used to do this wirelessly with my iMac and 
> iBook, but the iMac had to be active for it to work (which meant going 
> downstairs and waking it from sleep mode), so I bought a dedicated 
> device (one that allowed my wife's PC access, as well), instead.
>
> BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net
>
>
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